One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.