A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

困苦受辱不值得忧虑，而自取困辱才值得忧虑。荣耀利益不是真正的快乐，忘掉荣耀利益才是真正的快乐。

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.