Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.