CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.