“Anger is a brief madness.”

“Whatever advice you give, be brief.”

“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”

“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.”

“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”

“he who is greedy is always in want”

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”