A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

He laughs best who laughs least.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.