Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Twice – Once too often.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.