We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.