Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

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

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.