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.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.