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

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect.

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

Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

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

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

If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, what of Sense is the Father.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, ...