Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

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

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

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

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.