Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.