TABLE D’HOTE, n. A caterer’s thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser “triumph.”
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another’s advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
An army’s bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can’t let go.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.