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.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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.

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.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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