Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.