Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.