“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.”

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

“People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination”

“we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today”

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

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

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