It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
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.
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.
