Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.