If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.