He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.