Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.