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

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

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

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

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

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.