One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.