MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.