The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu