Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.