The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.