To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.