Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.