PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.