Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.