“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.”

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

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

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“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. ”

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ”

“I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.”