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Alexander Pope
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Alexander Pope
Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Alexander Pope
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Charles Dickens
He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.
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Edward Young
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, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
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Henry More
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
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Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
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Jean de la Fontaine
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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John Dryden
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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William Shenstone
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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