Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

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.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.