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

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

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

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.