INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.