Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.