An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.