The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

If you want to be happy, be happy.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.