LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.