Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.