“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

“I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”

“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”