Who said “You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.”?

“Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.”

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

“Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.”

“The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.”

“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”

“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”