A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.