I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Never say more than is necessary.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.