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.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

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

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Advice, the smallest current coin.