Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.