QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.