DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.