Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

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

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

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.