MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.