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.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

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

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.

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