SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

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

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.