Better to accept whatever happens.

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.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]