Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
You deserve to be called a human being only when you develop good feelings in you. Let your thoughts, words and deeds be suffused with sacred feelings.
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain?
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
