REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction..

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Ch….

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men..

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the….

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt..

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian..

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live..

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic..

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy..

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal fea….

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power..

predicament, n. The wage of consistency..

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction..

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination..

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible..

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience..

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world..

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire..

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be j….

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility..

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose..