Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.