The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.