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If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
No furniture is so charming as books.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
What you don't know would make a great book.
Live always in the best company when you read.
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
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.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
