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

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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

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.

No furniture is so charming as books.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

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