In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Chance is a second master.