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

But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K

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.

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

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