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

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

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

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

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

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!

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.