For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it..

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors..

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound o….

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own..

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account..

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the inter….

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it..

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation..

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit..

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull..

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back..

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Cante….

CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the….

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decree….

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity..

I was born to poor because of honest parents..

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the b….

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read….

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself..

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact..

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice..