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.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

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.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.