All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.