Other men's pains are easily borne.
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.