We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.