Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.