If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.