Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

No animal admires another animal.

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