WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.