No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.