The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.