Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.