If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.