“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.”

“He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him.”

“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 postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”

“Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. ”

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”

“You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers”