Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
There can be no happiness without good health
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.