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.

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

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.