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.

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

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

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

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

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

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.