“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“Life grows darker as we go on until only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith.”

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”