Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

The god of the world's leading religion.