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

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

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

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.