Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.