Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness. - Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.