What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.