It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.