Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

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

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.