Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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.

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

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

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.