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

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

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

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.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?