People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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

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.

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