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

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

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

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

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

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

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