Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.