The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.