"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."

"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"

"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."

"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God."