Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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.

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.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.