No animal admires another animal.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.