Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.