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

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.