Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

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

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

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