Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

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.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.