Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.