DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.