Advice, the smallest current coin.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.