King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same.

[…]we'd settled that I’d pick up some spiles from Greg Fitch first thing on Monday morning and get something done about that fence.

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …