A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.