Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest …

I die for my fatherland. I have a clear conscience. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.