RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.