Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.