Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.