You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.