Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
Danger for danger's sake is senseless.