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

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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.

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