"Dura materies ex matris ossibus Creavit homines iactis lapidibus. Ex quibus unus est iste puerulus, Qui lacrimabiles non curat gemitus. Cum tristis fuero, gaudebit emulus: Ut cerva rugio, cum fugit hinnulus."

"Iam, dulcis amica, venito, Quam sicut cor meum diligo; Intra in cubiculum meum, Ornamentis cunctis onustum."

"O Roma nobilis, Orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium Excellentissima, Roseo martyrum Albis et virginum Salutem dicimus Te benedicimus: Sanguine rubea, Liliis candida; Tibi per omnia, Salve per saecula."

"Mother, were he abroad I’d bear the separation but to live in separate houses in the same village is worse than death"

"You may think you have much to say about the night spent with your lover. The whisperings, the teasings, the little quarrels, and even how he smelt. But my friends, in truth from the moment his hand felt my skirt I remember nothing."

"Like a flash his love vanished A trinket gets dangled in your world you reach for it and it’s gone"

"Hunc Galatea vigens ausa est incessere bello."

"Stesichorusque ferox saltusque ingressa viriles non formidata temeraria Leucade Sappho."

"Nec frons triste rigens nimiusque in moribus horror sed simplex hilarisque fides et mixta pudori gratia."

"Exsere semirutos subito de pulvere vultus, Parthenope, crinemque adflato monte sepultum pone super tumulos et magni funus alumni."

"Silvaque quae fixam pelago Nesida coronat."

"Nobis meminisse relictum."

"Excidat illa dies aevo nec postera credant saecula. nos certe taceamus et obruta multa nocte tegi propriae patiamur crimina gentis."

"Crimine quo merui, juvenis placidissime divum, quove errore miser, donis ut solus egerem, Somne, tuis? tacet omne pecus volucresque feraeque et simulant fessos curvata cacumina somnos, nec trucibus fluviis idem sonus; occidit horror aequoris, et terris maria adclinata quiescunt."

"At nunc, quae solidum diem terebat, horarum via facta vix duarum."

"Nempe benigna quam mihi sorte Venus iunctam florentibus annis servat et in senium."

"Sic auferre rogis umbram conatur et ingens certamen cum Morte gerit, curasque fatigat artificum inque omni te quaerit amare metallo. Sed mortalis honos, agilis quem dextra laborat."

"Jamque et flere pio Vesuvina incendia cantu mens erat et gemitum patriis impendere damnis, cum pater exemptum terris ad sidera montem sustulit et late miseras deiecit in urbes."

"Mira fides! credetne virum ventura propago, cum segetes iterum, cum iam haec deserta virebunt, infra urbes populosque premi proavitaque tanto rura abiisse mari? necdum letale minari cessat apex."

"Primaevam visu platanum, cui longa propago innumeraeque manus et iturus in aethera vertex."

"Quas inter vultu petulans Elegea propinquat."

"Immensae veluti conexa carinae cumba minor, cum saevit hiems, pro parte furentis parva receptat aquas et eodem volvitur austro."

"Tu cujus placido posuere in pectore sedem blandus honos hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus, cui nec pigra quies nec iniqua potentia nec spes improba, sed medius per honesta et dulcia limes, incorrupte fidem nullosque experte tumultus et secrete, palam quod digeris ordine vitam, idem auri facilis contemptor et optimus idem comere divitias opibusque immittere lucem."

"Qui bona fide deos colit amat et sacerdotes."

"Steriles transmisimus annos: haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae."

"Bacchei vineta madentia Gauri."

"Magni quod Caesaris ora... unius amissi tetigit jactura leonis."

"Et dulces rapuit de collibus uvas."

"Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade."

"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

"God made the country, and man made the town."

"The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, Whom snoring she disturbs."

"Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished Sofa last."

"Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature."

"Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more."

"I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness,"

"I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touch'd with awe The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand, Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight, Now seek repose upon an humbler theme."

"A Roman meal, Such as the mistress of the world once found Delicious, when her patriots of high note, Perhaps by moonlight, at their humble doors, And under an old oak’s domestic shade, Enjoyed—spare feast!—a radish and an egg."

"While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

"What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?"

"O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!"

"The slope of faces from the floor to th' roof, (As if one master-spring controlled them all), Relaxed into a universal grin."

"With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves."

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

"United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne."

"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."

"'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,—to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd."

"Studious of laborious ease."