Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.