REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.