PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.