Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.