CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

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

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.