Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697