Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.