When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world..

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered..

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us..

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence..

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more..

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others..

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite..

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools..

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our con….

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enw….

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride a….

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection..

Accept life, and you must accept regret..

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companio….

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness..

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest..

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simulta….

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowl….

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him..

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life..

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves..