Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.