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.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.