REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

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.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.