"I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I beli…"

"The commonest things are the most useful; which shows the wisdom of God, who has made them common."

"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."

"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."