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

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

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

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

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.

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

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.