When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Faith is God's work within us.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.