Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.