A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

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

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

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