Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham