Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Love is the only future God offers.
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.