BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.