It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.