To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.