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

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

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

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

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.