Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

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

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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.