Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.