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.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

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

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

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.