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

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.