If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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