Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

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

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

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 bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.