NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.