I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.