All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.