The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.