Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
Be smart, drink your wine.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
There is a middle ground in things.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.