Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.