Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
War is the trade of kings.
Repartee is the soul of conversation.