Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.