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

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.

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.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

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

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.

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