Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.