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

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

Doubt is the father of invention.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.