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.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.