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.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.