To seek a justification for a decision already made.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.