Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
George Dennison Prentice

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

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
George Dennison Prentice

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

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
George Dennison Prentice

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

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 world.
George Dennison Prentice

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