It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

We are all happy if we but knew it.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.