We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.