We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.