Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.