Malice blunts the point of wit.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.