A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.