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

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

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

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

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

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.

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