I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.