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

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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

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.

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

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

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