George D. PrenticeThinkers

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

A Dentist is someone who gets paid to look down in the mouth.

Health is not much better than tedious disease if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet.

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.

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.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

Self-possession is one of the very best of all earthly possessions.

Smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Tobacco is one of those things that are better eschewed than chewed.