For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
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 series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.