Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego..

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies ….

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success..

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything..

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else..

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion..

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient..

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid..

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought..

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in sla….

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines..

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, c….

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears..

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opp….

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. ….

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered ….

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian ….

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office..

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those….

True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction….

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher..