Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.