ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

When you doubt, abstain.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?