He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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 dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping