The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.