Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

Every old poem is sacred.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

Luck cannot change birth.