Many People are acquainted with their own Wit, that are not acquainted with their own Heart.
It is not in the power of Wit, to act a long while the Part of the Heart.
A Man of Wit would be sometimes miserably at a loss, but for the
Company of Fools.
A Man of Wit may sometimes be a Coxcomb; but a Man of Judgment never can.
The different Ways or Methods for compassing a Design, come not so much from the Quickness and Fertility of an industrious Wit, as a dim-sighted Understanding, which makes us pitch upon every fresh Matter that presents itself to our groping Fancy, and does not furnish us with Judgment sufficient to discern at first sight, which or them is best for our Purpose.
The Twang of a Man's Native Country, sticks by him as much in his Mind and Disposition, as it does in his Tone of Speaking.
Wit serves sometimes to make us play the Fool with greater Confidence.
Shallow Wits are apt to censure everything above their own Capacity.
'Tis past the Power of Imagination it self, to invent so many distant Contrarieties, as there are naturally in the Heart of every Man.
No body is so well acquainted with himself, as to know his own Mind at all times.