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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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.

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.

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