RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

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