I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.