Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
To seek a justification for a decision already made.
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.