The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

We are all afraid of the truth.

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead