Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.