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

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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