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.

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!

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

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.

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