Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.