San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Doubt is the father of invention.

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

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

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

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