Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.