It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
Necessity knows no Sunday.
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.