Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .