Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.