Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.