Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

Habit: A shackle for the free.