LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity