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.

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

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

No furniture is so charming as books.