ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

A modern school where football is taught.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.