Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.