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 have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

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

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.