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

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

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

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

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.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.