Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.