Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

For no change comes calmly over the world.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.