Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.