An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.