Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.