“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Handsome is that handsome does.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

There’s nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There’s nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That’s the best job in the world.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

My approach to the races hasn’t changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.