We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.