Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.