It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

All haste implies weakness.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

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