I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

The very pink of perfection.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.