Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.