“Struggling to be brief I become obscure.”

“Anger is a brief madness.”

“Whatever advice you give, be brief.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11)”

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