Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

All haste implies weakness.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.