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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”