In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war.

Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.