Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.