RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.