To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.