Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.