We all like to forgive and love best not those who offend us least nor who have done most for us but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

We cannot know the whole truth which belongs to God alone but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors truth will retaliate with ugliness poverty and disease.