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.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

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

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.