Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered..

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed..

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker..

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am..

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum..

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, ….

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country..

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect..

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford..

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused b….

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue..

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment o….

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by ….

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted..

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he….

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art..

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly..

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government..

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage..

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have bee….

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and b….