Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.