In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.