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

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

Doubt is the father of invention.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.