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

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

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