MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.