PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.