If you wish to live humbly, you can do so without pretending to be an uneducated man and without taking an irritating and absurd name.

Why on earth do you call yourself Smilash ?" "I confess that the name has been a failure.

I took great pains, in constructing it, to secure a pleasant impression.

It is not a mere invention, but a compound of the words smile and eyelash.

A smile suggests good humor; eyelashes soften the expression and are the only features that never blemish a face.