Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.