Cowardice Is Not Synonymous With Prudence. It

Learning Is, In Too Many Cases, But A Foil To Common Sense; A Substitute For True Knowledge.

Humour Is The Making Others Act Or Talk Absurdly And Unconsciously; Wit Is The Pointing Out And Ridiculing That Absurdity Consciously, And With More Or Less Ill-nature.

A Thing Is Not Vulgar Merely Because It Is Common.

The Humblest Painter Is A True Scholar; And The Best Of Scholars The Scholar Of Nature.

I Do Not Think That What Is Called Love At First Sight Is So Great An Absurdity As It Is Sometimes Imagined To Be. We Generally Make Up Our Minds Beforehand To The Sort Of Person We Should Like, Grave Or Gay, Black, Brown, Or Fair; With Golden Tresses Or Raven Locks; - And When We Meet With A Complete Example Of The Qualities We Admire, The Bargain Is Soon Struck.