War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned