Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.