Ambrose Bierce Affair Quotations

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.