It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.