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

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

TRUCE, n. Friendship.