EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.