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

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.