War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.