A man is known by the company he organizes.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.