KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

When you doubt, abstain.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.