Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

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

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.