BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.