A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the o ...

Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep s ...

Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.