DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.