Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

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.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.