Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

The wife, or bitter half.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

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

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.