If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.