You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.