Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."