A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Wit is educated insolence.

He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.

Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.