DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.