ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.