The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.