A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.