One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

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

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

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

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.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.