Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.