Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses..

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre..

Hell is not to love anymore..

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly ….

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness..

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread..

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means..

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so..

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink ….

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness..

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it..

Hope is a risk that must be run..

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world..

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards..

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air..

[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for….

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more..

[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne ….

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to reco….

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end..

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all..