Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

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.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.