INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.