Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.