Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
George D. PrenticeIt 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.
George D. PrenticeThose 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.
George D. Prentice