Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Indeed I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions that I rather chose to be accounted a fool than to be thought rude or wanton.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Your wit makes others witty.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.