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

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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