We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.