George D. Prentice

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

— George D. Prentice

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

— George D. 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 D. Prentice

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

— George D. Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

— George D. Prentice

The year Has gone, and, with it, many a glorious throng Of happy dreams. Its mark is on each brow, Its shadow in each heart. In its swift course, It waved its sceptre o'er the beautiful,--And they are not.

— George D. Prentice