Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.