Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.