RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

He laughs best who laughs least.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.