The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

You can make anything by writing.

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.