critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him..

adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly..

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth..

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about..

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull..

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old….

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence..

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various anim….

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creato….

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast..

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others..

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced..

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious..

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated..

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is….

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart..

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or lat….

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well eno….

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy..

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue..

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing..