REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional….

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission..

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters..

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known..

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of….

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday….

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity..

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it..

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing..

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

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion..

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty..

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost..

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth..

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only….

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection..

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear..

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in….

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by ….

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was be….