Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

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.