COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.