Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Take not God’s name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.