Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
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.