TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.