Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

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

Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

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

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