“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

“that man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect”

“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”