PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.