Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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.