SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

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

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

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 . . .

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.