A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.