When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

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

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.