Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.