WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.