Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

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

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.