Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
