When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.