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

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.