The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

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?

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.