Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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.