 Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. |
| Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. |
| Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. |
| Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. |
| Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. |
| Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. |
| Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. |
| Doubt is the father of invention. |
| Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. |
| Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. |
| Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. |
| There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. |
| We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. |
| Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. |
| Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. |
| Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. |
| The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. |
| Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. |
| A man is known by the company he organizes. |
| Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. |
