A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.