Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.