admiration
— our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

alone
— in bad company

congratulation
— the civility of envy

destiny
— a tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure

education
— that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding

extinction
— the raw material out of which theology created the future state

faith
— belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

ghost
— the outward and visible sign of an inward fear

historian
— a broad-guage gossip

hope
— desire and expectation rolled into one