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.

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

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

Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.