Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
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.
Work at it night and day.
Gold will be slave or master.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.