It is great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care

Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretoken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow

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 observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact