If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.