Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.