Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.