Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.Collection: Army
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imaginationCollection: Loyalty
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.Collection: Funny
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.Collection: Funny
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.Collection: Believe
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.Collection: Military
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.Collection: Wise
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.Collection: Hope
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.Collection: Morning
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.Collection: Music
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.Collection: Sarcastic
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.Collection: Love
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.Collection: Sarcastic
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable foolCollection: Religious
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."Collection: Flirting
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.Collection: Life
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.Collection: Book
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.Collection: Tea
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.Collection: Silence
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?Collection: War
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.Collection: Confidence
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.Collection: Life
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.Collection: Hate
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.Collection: Oil