Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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