Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.