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

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.