Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.