BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.