Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value