I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.