Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual