Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.