Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Selfishness is blind.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.