When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

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