One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.