Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.