If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
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.
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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.