Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.