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.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.