Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.