Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.