“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
“A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is. ”
“O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils” ”
“What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!”
“It was like digging for gold in a garbage pile. And if that little analogy didn't tell her something, she didn't know what could.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”