To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
The echo of a platitude.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.