I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.