No furniture is so charming as books.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

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.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

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

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.