The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

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

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

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

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

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