LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

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.

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

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.