Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.