Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.