Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.
Attributed
“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.”
Popular Fallacies: XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
Peveril of the Peak, Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.”
Shakespeare Grog, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Gregory's Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin", Diogenes Laërtius, Pythagoras, vi. "A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em", Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Act iii, Scene 1.
Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 13 (p. 178)
“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.”
Mynheer Vandunck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poem, The Massacre of the Macpherson
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Matt. 17:10–13
Reincarnation & Christianity (1967)
