Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.