Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
TRUCE, n. Friendship.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.