Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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