RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.