PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.