Toleration is the best religion.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.