'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre le bon read more

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la
cause a son effet.]

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Huzzaed out of my seven senses.

Huzzaed out of my seven senses.

He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug read more

He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.

Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.

Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.

Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire read more

Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),