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

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.