In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.