Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

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

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.