A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.