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

“No furniture is so charming as books.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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. ”