“It is a cruel proof of the want of generosity in human nature, that an affection too utterly self-sacrificing always meets with an evil return.”

“The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.”

“Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.”

“When someone is sure of the returns, then he shows generosity.”

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

“Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.”

“Love in animals, has not for its only object animals of the same species, but extends itself farther, and comprehends almost every sensible and thinking being. A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection.”

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”