One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.