I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.