There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.