Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.