Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.