LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.