ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.