A friend you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s pretty certain that she has his

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

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

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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