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

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

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.

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.

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