Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.