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.

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.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.