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

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.