It is not permitted that we should know everything.
Half is done when the beginning is done.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.