PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

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

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.