Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.
Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered 5 with virtue and humanity. Addison.
Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir Thomas Overbury.
Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman.
Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Whipple.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. Pr.
Wit strews a single ray (of the prism) separated 10 from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom. Holmes.
Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally despised by the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Wit without employment is a disease. Burton.