Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.