It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

Death is an eternal sleep.

Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.