Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.