ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.