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

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.

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

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

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

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.