An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author’s contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the “buffone”, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
Don’t board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor’s uneasiness.
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
Homo Creator’s testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
The wife, or bitter half.
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Gout, a physician’s name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.