“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.”

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.

The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised.

A devotee’s life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It’s escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It’s one more for trying to be less.