A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

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.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

To grow a philosopher's beard.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.