The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.