Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.