The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.