HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.