Take fresh heart and never forget that a warmed-up dinner is worth nothing at all.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Everywhere my thought offers and exposes itself to the light of day, and my verse, whether good or bad, always says something.

Be a mason instead, if you have a talent for that.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.