Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.