Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.