A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.