Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.