Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.