The well of true wit is truth itself. - George Meredith

First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!