Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

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

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.