“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.”

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”

“Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.”

“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.”

“Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot recast them, and the best course is, to let them be as they are and bear with them. Do not think it strange when you witness unreasonableness and injustice; rest in peace in the bosom of God; He sees it all more clearly than you do, and yet permits it. Be content to do quietly and gently what it becomes you to do, and let everything else be to you as though it were not.”

“All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”

“The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.”