In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.