When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.