“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.”

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

“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

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

“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”

“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”