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.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.