Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.