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.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Remember to be calm in adversity.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.