Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

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

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

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