Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.