There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

The journey is better than the inn".

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.