Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

The jests of the rich are ever successful.