A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

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

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

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