“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.”

“...nothing in my experience would have prepared me for the lengths that [Republicans] will go to undermine opportunity in our country.”

“Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.”

“I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do. ”

“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No longer finding urban life as secure and amenable as in the early empire, the landed rich gave primacy not to their urban mansions but to their country estates, making the latter their principal residences. The dominant forces in urban life increasingly became the bishops and cathedral clergy.”

“Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?”