Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.