INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.