No furniture is so charming as books.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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.
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
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.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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.
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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.
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.