Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Once you label me you negate me.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

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

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.