PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Doubt is the father of invention.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.