Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.