Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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.

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.