The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.