So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

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.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.