The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.