Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig’s reply to proponents of porcophagy.
TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
TABLE D’HOTE, n. A caterer’s thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.