Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

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.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.