OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.