The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.