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

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

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?