Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Physician. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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

A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.