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

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

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

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

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

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.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.