The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.