I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

To have more, you must first be more.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.