But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.