OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.