REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.