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.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.