Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.