The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.