There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.