Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

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

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.