Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.