PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.