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

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.