...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.