Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Twice – Once too often.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.