All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.