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

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

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

Those 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.

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

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

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.