International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.