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

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.