Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""