Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.