Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.