~Wishes.~--The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes
and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a
riddle.--_Richter._
~Wit.~--I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit, and
failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch, and tumbling
into it.--_Johnson._
Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp
sauce.--_Shakespeare._
Wit must grow like fingers. If it be taken from others 'tis like plums
stuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come to
nothing.--_Selden._
If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who
has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which
might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the
ground.--_Scriver._
To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.--_Madame
de Maintenon._
~Woe.~--No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.--_Walter
Scott._