Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.