A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

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.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

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

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.