As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.