It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

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

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.