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

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.