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

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.