Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

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

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

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