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| Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them. | | Law and Politics | | |
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| Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. | | Law and Politics; War and Peace | | |
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| Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. | | Altruism and Cynicism | | |
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| Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. | | War and Peace | | |
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| Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. | | Wealth and Poverty | | |
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| Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. | | Altruism and Cynicism | | |
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| Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. | | Science and Religion | | |
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| In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. | | Law and Politics | | |
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| Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. | | Love and Hate | | |
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| It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. | | Vice and Virtue | | |
