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

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.