To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil..

LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rur….

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold….

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant..

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat..

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white..

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 poss….

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it..

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment..

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads..

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms..

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as ….

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers..

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others..

A lottery is a tax on stupidity..

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; th….

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another..

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state..

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished f….

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record..

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream..