To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.