RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.