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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Man alone can enslave man.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.