Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.