Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

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

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.