At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

Only those live who do good.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.