I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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.