The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.