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

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

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

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

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

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

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