Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.