The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

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

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.