Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

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.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.