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.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

Applause abates diligence.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.