He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

When I called upon Dr. Johnson next morning, I found him highly satisfied with his colloquial prowess the preceding evening. 'Well, (said he,) we had good talk…

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a seri…

Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too…