“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.