Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

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.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.