MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.