Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

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

TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

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