Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

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.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.