REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.