We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything...
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.