There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.]

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn