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

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

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.

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.

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