Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.