A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.