What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

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.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.