Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

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

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.