Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.