From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.