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

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.