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

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

Punctuality is the sole of business.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Nature's bank-dividends.