“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
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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.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.