Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.