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

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.