God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.