Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.