Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.