Truth is a knowledge of things as they are, as they have been, and as they will be.

Beauty is nothing but a transitory charm, an illusion of senses, a slave of pleasure; a flower which has but a moment of life; a dial, on which we neer look, but while the sun shines on it: it is a dunghill covered with snow; a glass painted with false colors. --John Smith

• circumlocution
  An opposite term to horismus: To describe or define something in a roundabout or indirect manner.
• systrophe
  An opposite term to horismus: The listing of many qualities or descriptions of someone or something, without providing an explicit definition.