It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.