Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

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