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

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

When you doubt, abstain.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

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

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.