The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.