It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

Those they praise, but they read the others.