Dumb-Bells
I regard them with suspicion as academic.
Purgatory
Time is the only true purgatory.
Greatness
He is greatest who is most often in men’s good thoughts.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
There is only one thing vainer and that is the having no wishes.
Jones’s Conscience
He said he had not much conscience, and what little he had was guilty.
Nihilism
The Nihilists do not believe in nothing; they only believe in nothing that does not commend itself to themselves; that is, they will not allow that anything may be beyond their comprehension. As their comprehension is not great their creed is, after all, very nearly nihil.