I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.