SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

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.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure