GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.