To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.