We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.