It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

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

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

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

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

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

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