PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.