Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.