A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;-"Damn the solar system! bad light - planets too distant - pestered with comets - feeble contriviance; - could make a better with great ease."

We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

You remember Thurlow's answer to some one complaining of the injustice of a company. "Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? they have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick."

Macaulay is like a book in breeches...He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.