“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort”

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.”

“Fear is the only consequence of every sort of falsehood.”

“The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.”

“to a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.”

“A man's perishing here, a man's vanishing from his own sight here, and can't control himself--what sort of wedding can there be!”

“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”