Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy