Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.