Who said “Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of…”?

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”

“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”