PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.