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

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.