Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.