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

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 have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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

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