Thus Richelieu will submit to Joseph the Capuchin, and Louis XI to his barber, Maitre Olivier le Diable.

Thus Cromwell will say: "I have Parliament in my bag and the King in my pocket"; or, with the hand that signed the death sentence of Charles the First, smear with ink the face of a regicide who smilingly returns the compliment.

Thus Caesar, in his triumphal car, will be afraid of overturning.

For men of genius, however great they be, have always within them a touch of the beast which mocks at their intelligence.

Therein they are akin to mankind in general, for therein they are dramatic.