Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
Now is the time to drink!
What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.
Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.
He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author.
Quae caret ora cruore nostro?
He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.