Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

The wife, or bitter half.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.