Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

I feel an army in my fist.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.