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.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.