URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.