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

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.