The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people..

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality..

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string..

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else..

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself..

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it..

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true fem….

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth..

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it..

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours..

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts..

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead..

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of ….

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad ….

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity..

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable..

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life..

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, o….

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat..

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers..