IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.