A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.