If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.